The Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan, and the Minister of State for Sport and ...

which is the first skier in Ireland to do so. So that was the biggest achievement of it all, aside from the medals." He also had a message for anyone considering becoming a Special Olympics athletes.

That's the ethos of double gold medallists Caolán McConville and Lucy Best who returned home this week after competing for Team Ireland at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin.

Alpine skier Lorraine Whelan at Dublin Airport It’s a case of all roads lead to Turin – as Ireland’s 14-strong ... in search of glory at the Special Olympics Winter Games.

Jubilant scenes in Turin as Team Ireland’s floorballers claim bronze at Special Olympics It may have been Gold Cup Day at Cheltenham, but bronze was the metal of choice in Turin as jubilant scen ...